Our orchid garden is currently being renovated. It was time to change some of the wires from which the orchids are hanging and also to...

Last week we ran our macroinvertebrate monitoring again. We monitored two river within and one river outside of the Santa Lucía reserve....

Earlier this week two students of the S.I.T. program arrived at Nanegal to run their semester projects here. This time around they won't...

Inspired by training held in Santa Lucía in August and some very successfull forest school events on aquatic macroinvertebrates we will...

Yesterday we waved good-bye to students of St. Olaf College who visited us for four days. We were also quite happy to learn that our...

Diastema is a genus in the Gesneriaceae family. We have at least one species of that genus present in the Santa Lucía reserve. It's a...

On 23rd of July we invited the kids of our local forest school to meet students and staff of Lincoln University which are currently...

The Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) is a rodent that is commonly directly seen as well as photographed by camera traps in...

A group of 16 students of the University of Oregeon is visiting the Santa Lucía Reserve. They are led by professor Tobias Policha, a...

Yesterday we finally held another forest school event. Traditionally in May Nanegal, the parrish that Santa Lucía belongs, has its annual...

Although we have a weather station that's sending data to the internet we still maintain taking the rain data manually as some sort of...

2022 was a very successfull year for Santa Lucía in terms of research and student groups. A total of 17 groups of 10 or more students...

We are happy announce that after three years we were finally able to receive a student group of the University of Lincoln, UK, again in...

Last Sunday during the fair of the annual festivities in Nanegal we had a test run of our park school activity. The park school is an...

Earlier this month several members of the Santa Lucía community and neighbors got an introduction into the cultivation of the Vanilla...

All the monitoring activities of 2021 were finalized in December and we are currently in the process of analyzing the data. Since 2008...

From 4th to 20th of December we hosted two groups of students from the University of Sussex in our reserve. It was a blast. Everything...

It's time for good news from Santa Lucía again! Yesterday, we installed a new set of solar panels! The goals is to have some continuous...

Last week Ana Mariscal's team finished the establishing the last hectare plot in Santa Lucía. That means that we have three hectare plots...

It finally happened! After 18 months we received our first student group last week. Elevent students and three teachers of the School for...